Hey , guys , guess what , big newsflash descend the right way up : Sometimes Comcast does n’t tell the Sojourner Truth . The National Advertising Review Board ( NARB)just ruledthat the telecom giant ca n’t prove that it provide “ America ’s fastest internet ” or the “ fastest in - dwelling house wi - fi . ” Because , well , these are not honest assertion .
The NARB just pass up Comcast ’s ingathering that it did indeed declare oneself “ America ’s fastest internet ” and the “ fast in - home wi - fi . ” The newfangled opinion from the advertising industry ’s guard dog come after Verizon argued last year thatComcast was full of shitand also spread out misinformation about Verizon services . Comcast has now agreed to abide by with the NARB ruling and will presumptively hold back making phoney claims .
Despite how much you might detest your Comcast service , however , the detail of the telecom giants ’ backing and forthing are actually a little bit guileful . Basically , Comcast pointed to crowdsourced Ookla ’s Speedtest.net data , but the NARB says that these resultant role are misleading , if not wholly incorrect .
“ Ookla ground that the top 10 percent of XFINITY consumers had download speeds of at least 104.56 Mbps , and the top 10 percent of Verizon FiOS consumer had download swiftness of at least 83.39 Mbps , ” the NARB said in a affirmation . “ Based on these finding , Ookla determined that XFINITY was ‘ America ’s Fastest Internet . ’ ”
None of these revelations should imply that Verizon FiOS is a cracking service . It ’s actuallyso hard to get FiOS , you could feign that Verizon just hold the mellow stop number around to make its selling elbow grease more fun . Then again , nothing ’s very funabout America ’s stinky internet , andit ’s credibly go to get worseunder the Trump administration . So revel this small spatter of schadenfreude while you may . glowering days are just around the box .
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